Freese Inspiration

Today the adventure I took - as noted in the poem below - was to Freese Coffee co. I read about them after a friend posted a link to the owner's blog about the best coffee in Helsinki. I obviously had to try this place out, as my time here is centered around exploring the city through its coffee scene. 

Freese Coffee co. serves some of the best tasting coffee around but not only that, as I had the best company too - in the form of a beautiful barista and a magical manager! Not only did they tell me about their Frespresso but offered me coffee tea (made from the fruit pods which the beans are held in) and told me a bit about themselves. They were full of life and made it one of the best coffee experiences I've had so far and I will, without a doubt, go back to try the brunch which they pride themselves on. 

If you're in Helsinki, whether you're on exchange with me now or you happen to find yourself here - go to Freese Coffee co.; they'll invite you in warmly and make you leave with a smile on your face and in a world that flies by, where moments of solace and interesting company can be so often amiss, I think it is an incredible thing. (You may even get sprayed in the face with water if you're lucky!)

And as promised to those two wonderful woman - how apt on International Women's Day - here is the extract from Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, which inspired some of my Sonnet today and is now one of my favourite passages in literature: 

"When I'm playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for whales! I scratch my head with the lightning and purr myself to sleep with the thunder! When I'm cold, I bile the Gulf of Mexico and bathe in it; when I'm hot I fan myself with an equinoctial storm; when I'm thirsty I reach up and suck a cloud dry like a sponge; when I range the earth hungry, famine follows in my tracks! Whoo-oop! Bow your neck and spread! I put my hand on the sun's face and make it night in the earth; I bite a piece out of the moon and hurry the seasons; I shake myself and crumble the mountain! Contemplate me through leather - don't use the naked eye! I'm the man with a petrified heart and biler-iron bowels! The massacre of isolated communities is the pastime of my idle moments, the destruction of nationalities the serious business of my life! The boundless vastness of the great American desert is my inclosed property, and I bury my dead on my own premises!" Ch. XVI 

Thank you for making today match the expectations the Sun gave it!

ps. The rugby match is Ireland VS Italy.